UK airport operator BAA’s chairman, Sir Nigel Rudd, has told a Parliamentary committee that there were no indications of any problems which would have led the company to postpone the opening of London Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

Rudd and BAA chief executive Colin Matthews were answering questions from Parliament’s transport select committee over the 27 March switch of British Airways services to the new building.

Hundreds of flights were cancelled and thousands of items of luggage misplaced over the following two weeks as BAA battled to address problems with the terminal’s baggage-management system.

Addressing the committee, Rudd said he was “bitterly disappointed” that the transfer had not proceeded smoothly. But he insisted that, while a number of problems “might have been foreseen”, there was none of a size that would have led BAA to stop the openi

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